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 102 STAT. 336

20 USC I22ie-i.

Establishment.

Contracts.

PUBLIC LAW 100-297—APR. 28, 1988

shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both. "(D) The Commissioner may utilize temporary staff, including employees of Federal, State, or local agencies or instrumentalities including local education agencies, and employees of private organizations to assist the Center in performing the work authorized by this section, but only if such temporary staff is sworn to observe the limitations imposed by this section. "(E) No collection of information or data acquisition activity undertaken by the Center shall be subject to any review, coordination or approval procedure except as required by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under the rules and regulations established pursuant to chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code. "(F) For the purposes of this section— "(i) the term 'individually identifiable information' means any record, response form, completed survey or aggregation thereof from which information about individual students, teachers, administrators or other individual persons may be revealed; "(ii) the term 'report' means a response provided by or about an individual to an inquiry from the Center and does not include a statistical aggregation from which individually identifiable information cannot be revealed; and "(iii) as used in clause (i), the term 'persons' does not include States, local educational agencies, or schools.". (n) EDUCATION INFORMATION AND DATA.—Section 406 of the Act is amended— (1) in subsection (e)(1) by striking in the first sentence "of the Office"; (2) by redesignating subsection (h) as subjection (i); (3) by inserting after subsection (g) a new subsection (h): "(h)(1) There is established within the Center a National Cooperative Education Statistics System (hereafter referred to in this subsection as the 'System'). The purpose of the System is to produce and maintain, with the cooperation of the States, comparable and uniform educational information and data that are useful for policymaking at the Federal, State, and local level. "(2) Each State that desires to participate in the system shall— "(A) first develop with the Center the information and datagathering requirements that are needed to report on the condition and progress of elementary and secondary education in the United States, such as information and data on— "(i) schools and school districts; "(ii) students and enrollments, including special populations; "(iii) the availability and use of school libraries and their resources; "(iv) teachers, librarians, and school administrators; "(v) the financing of elementary and secondary education; "(vi) student outcomes, including scores on standardized tests and other measures of educational achievement; and "(vii) the progress of education reform in the States and the Nation; and "(B) then enter into an agreement with the Center for that fiscal year to comply with those information and data-gathering requirements.

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